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ἐᾱτέος

eateos

to be suffered

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Where it lives

  • Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
  • Phaedrus 2 · 1.2/10k
  • Republic 10 · 1.13/10k
  • Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
  • Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
  • Sophist 1 · 0.62/10k
  • Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k
  • Philebus 1 · 0.57/10k
  • Laws 5 · 0.48/10k
  • Enneads 10 · 0.47/10k
  • Politics 3 · 0.46/10k
  • Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

to be suffered

to be suffered, E. Ph. 1210: c. inf., ἐατέος ἐστὶ φεύγειν Hdt. 8.108, cf. Pl. R. 401b.

2 one must suffer

ἐατέον one must suffer, E. HF 173, etc.

II to be let alone, given up

to be let alone or given up, ἐ. ὁ πλοῦτος Id. Hel. 905, cf. Ph. 1.564.

2 must let, alone, one must dismiss, one must omit

τὴν πόλιν ἐατέον τῆς κατοικίσεως we must let it alone as to foundation, Pl. Lg. 969c; one must dismiss from oneʼs mind, Id. Grg. 512e; one must omit, Str. 2.5.18.

In the wild

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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